Return to Writing
Today is the first day this blog is being used. So far we’ve been working at the development site. So this really is the first entry. Today was my first day back at the writing since November 16, the Paper …
Author: Gita
Liberal vs critical: Stephen Kinzer and Ervand Abrahamian (Democracy Now, 2003)
An older interview on Democracy Now on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the coup. Note the different readings offered by Kinzer and Abrahamian. Kinzer’s is an action film scenario complete with a “fantastic cast of characters in the …
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The 1953 Iranian Coup Revisited in 2012
Bleow is a very enlightening lecture by Ervand Abrahamian who is a foremost authority on the coup. His book Coup: 1953, CIA and the Roots of Modern US-Iranian Relations has just been published. Abrahamian refutes claims made by liberal US …
Donald N. Wilber’s 1954 Report
This is the link to Wilber’s 1954 report which is one of the few (partially) revealed CIA documents. Wilber was the one designated by the CIA to come up with the plan for the coup. So he is in fact …